I was on the facebook, macrumors, and engadget, when all of a sudden i got the beach ball and everything froze. I shut the computer down by holding the power button because there was no other way to shut down the computer. I waited 10 minutes for the beach ball to stop but it did not. I went to turn my computer on and nothing happened. I only got the gray start-up screen. I was like, "Damn, this can't be good." So I put in the OS X install disc and went to disk utility and this is what I got:
Verify and Repair disk "Macintosh HD"
Checking HFS Plus volume.
Invalid B-tree node size
Volume check failed.
Error: The underlying task reported failure on exit
I was told this was a software related issue and to do a complete erase of the hard drive and install of OS X.
I did that and zeroed out all the data on the drive to get a fresh start.
When I went to install OS X on the formated "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)" internal hard drive, on the screen for the install that says "Select a Destination," there are no volumes (hard drives) present. When I hook up my 160 GB Western Digital external drive, it appears as a volume but my internal hard drive does not. So I went online to find out what S.M.A.R.T. is and found that I could put a certain command in Terminal to find the S.M.A.R.T. status.
In Terminal I put diskutil info disk0.
I got:
Device Node: /dev/disk0
Device Identifier: disk0
Mount Point:
Volume Name:
Partition Type: GUID_partition_scheme
Bootable: Not Bootable
Media Type: Generic
Protocol: SATA
SMART Status: Verified
Total Size: 149.1 GB
Free Space: 0.0 B
Read Only: No
Ejectable: No
OS 9 Drivers: No
Low Level Format: Not Supported
I also tried to mount the internal disk using disk utility from the OS X install disk but I receive an error saying the disk could not be mounted.
I have a SR Macbook Pro. Does this mean my hard drive is dead because it is "Not Bootable."
This is an internal drive. Came with my Macbook Pro. It is a Fujitsu MHW2160BHPL Media. It had OS X installed.
Any answers or suggestions are appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Verify and Repair disk "Macintosh HD"
Checking HFS Plus volume.
Invalid B-tree node size
Volume check failed.
Error: The underlying task reported failure on exit
I was told this was a software related issue and to do a complete erase of the hard drive and install of OS X.
I did that and zeroed out all the data on the drive to get a fresh start.
When I went to install OS X on the formated "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)" internal hard drive, on the screen for the install that says "Select a Destination," there are no volumes (hard drives) present. When I hook up my 160 GB Western Digital external drive, it appears as a volume but my internal hard drive does not. So I went online to find out what S.M.A.R.T. is and found that I could put a certain command in Terminal to find the S.M.A.R.T. status.
In Terminal I put diskutil info disk0.
I got:
Device Node: /dev/disk0
Device Identifier: disk0
Mount Point:
Volume Name:
Partition Type: GUID_partition_scheme
Bootable: Not Bootable
Media Type: Generic
Protocol: SATA
SMART Status: Verified
Total Size: 149.1 GB
Free Space: 0.0 B
Read Only: No
Ejectable: No
OS 9 Drivers: No
Low Level Format: Not Supported
I also tried to mount the internal disk using disk utility from the OS X install disk but I receive an error saying the disk could not be mounted.
I have a SR Macbook Pro. Does this mean my hard drive is dead because it is "Not Bootable."
This is an internal drive. Came with my Macbook Pro. It is a Fujitsu MHW2160BHPL Media. It had OS X installed.
Any answers or suggestions are appreciated. Thanks in advance.
